MS.40

[p]Calendarium. [/p] [p]Indictiones. [/p] [p]Festa mobilia. [/p] [p]Tabula planetarum.[/p] [p]Homo venarum. [/p] [p]Tabula lunae. [/p] [p]Eclipses solis. [/p] [p]Eclipses lunae. [/p] [p]Homo signorum. [/p] [p]Canon Kalendarii. [/p] [p]Written in red and black, with initials in blue. With two carefully executed drawings in red and black of the 'Vein-man' and of the 'Astrological man'. The dates of the eclipses are from 1461-1481, and the outside of the cover is dated 1463 by an early hand. There are also small drawings of the eclipses in red and blue.[/p]

7 ll. folio. 27.5 x 17 cm. [folded to 14 x 5 cm.] On vellum, sewn in original limp vellum cover. The original folio-size sheets have been folded double, and then in three, and the vellum cover added to fit the smaller format. At the top of the cover is a vellum tag so that the MS. could be suspended by a cord from a girdle.; leaf dimensions: width cm, length cm; written dimensions: width cm, length cm

Purchased at Sotheby's 31/7/1923, Lot 508A.

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